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  2. Area code 207 - Wikipedia

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    Area code 207 is the sole telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Maine. Area code 207 was created as one of the original North American area codes in 1947. The numbering plan area retains its original boundaries, having never been split or overlaid. As of April 2020, area code 207 is not threatened ...

  3. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve.It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005.

  4. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

  5. List of IOC country codes - Wikipedia

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    The following tables show the currently used code for each NOC and any different codes used in past Games, per the official reports from those Games. Some of the past code usage is further explained in the following sections. Codes used specifically for a Summer Games only or a Winter Games only, within the same year, are indicated by "S" and ...

  6. Code of Ur-Nammu - Wikipedia

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    The author who had the laws written onto cuneiform tablets is still somewhat under dispute. Some scholars have attributed it to Ur-Nammu's son Shulgi. [8] Although it is known that earlier law-codes existed, such as the Code of Urukagina, this represents the earliest extant legal text. It is three centuries older than the Code of Hammurabi.

  7. List of best-selling video games - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of video games that have sold the highest number of software units worldwide. The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, a sandbox game released by Mojang in November 2011 for a wide range of PC, mobile and console platforms, selling more than 300 million copies across all platforms.

  8. Legality of incest - Wikipedia

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    The husband's father or the wife's father or the mother's husband or the father's wife or the husband's family; Persons who are spouses of a brother or sister; Twelve years imprisonment (six years for indecent assault, doubled if the perpetrator is a family member or relative of the victim) [45] Turkey: Legal Turkmenistan: Illegal

  9. Postal codes in the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    Postal codes in the Netherlands, known as postcodes, are alphanumeric, consisting of four digits followed by two uppercase letters. The letters 'F', 'I', 'O', 'Q', 'U' and 'Y' were originally not used for technical reasons, but almost all existing combinations are now used as these letters were allowed for new locations starting 2005.